AgentOrangesicle @ AgentOrangesicle @lemmy.world

I'm a dude in Oregon. I regularly make bad life decisions and do not make a

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It was a good sustained 15 to 20 seconds, and the lumen it projected didn't really fluctuate. It was more in the yellow than white spectrum as well. Makes sense for my initial description, but it doesn't make sense for the Willamette Valley, the color, and pattern of movement. Not that I have a better explanation, but I've spent my whole professional life as a food QA auditor and lab tech, so I'm used to just reporting things I've seen and not reading into them.

Probably an attempt at a viral marketing campaign. Everything seems to turn out disappointing these days.

Atheist and skeptic, so I can't jump to conclusions, but I watched a sphere of light move alongside me in my car while I was driving next to the Willamette river in West Salem, Oregon. It moved and stopped with more precision than I've ever seen from a drone and stayed about 50-some feet in the air above the river. I moved my head around consistently to ensure it wasn't a reflection on my windshield. My friend had told me about his "alien experience" that sounded shockingly the same, also in West Salem, but a good year before this. He claims to have seen multiple and was just standing outside for a cigarette.

Everything has always been brain.

That's literally the principle of several religions.

I live in Oregon! Someone tell me how to do the Bethesda potion hack so I can raise all my stats to reality-breaking extremes.

Sounds like you need to know more furries, normal human. <3

Everything I eat becomes a sausage until it's not again.

Yo, I'm just happy to learn new things! Hell, my post was imploring people to criticize it, so you aren't wrong in "well actually"-ing me. Keep killing it and keep sharing good chemistry knowledge! Psychoactive substances are continuously more intriguing to me as I learn more.

I met one of the grandsons of Alex Shulgin (creator of MDMA) in a drug diversion class that I taught briefly at the University of Oregon (meant for kids that were caught smoking weed in the dorms). I only hosted the class for a few months until I got complaints that I was too fascinated with the drug interactions and not with the whole "diversion" part of it.

But hey, everyone learned not to mix central nervous system depressants, which was the largest cause of drug-related fatalities at the UO, so I think I did my job effectively. Wish they would have paid me for it.

You're good people, havokdjfintquuffatcpl.

Hot take, but hurtfully inaccurate. It's worth looking at the research on hallucinogenic Tryptamines. DMT naturally exists in the brain and is used during R.E.M. sleep.

God, that's a book and a half of neuro-interaction, isn't it?

I mean, they never didn't exist, but... fuck.

I... I guess because a subclass of psychoactive molecules came into existence after my education, I'm wrong. Just sucks to learn that and make sense of myself thereafter.

Fuck.

Lysergemise deez nuts...

But in good faith and context, what are the differences in action potentials? Is it worth writing about? That's an actual question, because (apologies) I'm stoned as fuck.

Also, how is it suddenly not a tryptamine?

I mean, this is going to sound super-oversimplified but hopefully correct: we know that Tryptamines like LSD and psilocybin serve their most novel functions on 5-HT_2A serotonin binding sites and there are a lot in the thalamus, which is largely responsible for routing information to other parts of the brain. That would explain a lot of people's accounts of synesthesia.

The circumstances that are necessary to promote neuroplasticity weren't clear when I was in skool, but the fastest way to get a credible answer on the internet is to be wrong about something, so I'm going to claim it was 95.6% magic.

I'm literally losing friends by nature of death. It's been humbling and horrifying, and I don't know how to make sense of it. I'm terrified and there's no getting out of this roller coaster.

What's the next geometric shape for icons, though? Everyone made square icons before they evolved into circles. I think hexagons are the future.

The Daniels also made a 10-minute short called, "Interesting Ball". It felt like their entire goal was to say nothing at all and still make it feel profound.

Everything Everywhere wasn't that, because it really explored regret, acceptance, and the importance of pursuing empathy in relationships. That being said, they definitely did their director magic and hyperbolized everything they could.

Is it still my favorite movie? Yes.

Yes it is.

Can confirm.